At CPAC 2008 a young Ron Paul supporter asked Ann Coulter what she thought
of Ron Paul and if "true conservatives" shouldn't be supporting his
principled limited government campaign in the GOP primaries. Coulter
answered that she tried not to listen to Congressman Paul because he was
very smart and she was afraid he just might convince her.
Her packed noon address to the main hall at CPAC2010 was mainly stand up
comedy and very good stand up comedy. ("Everyone is deserting Obama;
Michelle has even asked to see his birth certificate." "Bill Clinton was
rushed to the hospital where he told the doctors it felt like he had two
interns sitting on his chest.") But the Q&A was more serious,
including questions about the near take over of CPAC by Ron Paul
libertarians, who seem to be 60% or more of the under 30 crowd. Dr. Paul
and his associates (Judge Andrew Napolitano, "Metdown" author Tom Woods,
lawyer Bruce Fein, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, "Obamanomics"
author Tim Carney) have been one of the four satellite track lectures almost
every session when not in the main hall itself.
Earnest young non-libertarian questioners, wondering what had happened,
asked Coulter how the "C" in CPAC could stand for libertarian. At first she
tried to placate one questioner by pointing out that Dr. Paul was pro-life.
Then she had a soft attack on libertarians in answer to another beleaguered
conservative, opining that she was "more libertarian than most
libertarians," but that she didn't need to spend all her time calling for
legalizing pot until we have eliminated the EPA, the Department of
Education, and a list of other agencies, and until she would not be called
upon to pay unemployment benefits to pot heads who lose their jobs. While
she listed the agencies that would need to be abolished first, Paulistas
started chanting their trademark "End the Fed," until Ms. Coulter finally
did a power sign and responded "End the Fed." Finally yet another exhausted
young traditional conservative asked her a third time about how to get rid
of these growing legions of libertarians and Coulter closed with "Whenever
Ron Paul says anything that isn't about foreign policy, I totally support
him."
>From the serious to the sarcastic, from Liz Cheney to Ann Coulter, the
conservative intelligentsia is facing overlapping tsunamis of both tea party
populism and a Ron Paul non-interventionism. The wider tea party movement
may well wash away the Obama regime and the Demwit incumbatocracy. But the
second tsunami is also aimed for the future control of the GOP.
http://teapartiers.blogspot.com
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